Decoding Activities

Phonological Awareness Activities

These phonological awareness activities are to help tauira identify  individual sounds in words.  They include: teaching syllable awareness, teaching onset-rime awareness and teaching phonemic awareness.

Phonological awareness activities (PDF) 

Snap Cards

• High frequency words (step 1)

• Key words (step 2)

• Identify words with same sound but different spelling, for example, lie, bite, high, fly (step 3)

Syllables

• Syllables are “chunks of sound”

• Select multiple syllable words from a relevant text and ask learners to chunk them into syllables while reading each word to them

• An alternative activity is to chunk the words them into syllables on cards, read the words aloud and ask learners to choose the chunks of sound to create each word

• to help learners read new or difficult words

• Syllables activities also help with spelling  

MS Doc Template The Ukulele Maker (PDF)

Practising reading skills in pairs

In pairs, practise reading skills on a selection of short extracts from texts with different purposes (for example, from a letter, an advertisement, a notice, a story) highlighting any unknown words.